Thurs., Dec. 10, 5 – 7 pm, award-winning Post & Courier writer Bo Petersen will be discussing and signing Washing Our Hands in the Clouds: Joe Williams, His Forebears, and Black Farms in South Carolina (USC Press, pb., $19.95).
In Washing Our Hands in the Clouds, Peterson offers a reflection on the Civil War, Emancipation, Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement all filtered through the personal narrative of one man in one place. By fusing Joe Williams’ family genealogy with his neighborhood and, most importantly, his family’s farmland in the Pee Dee region of South Carolina, Petersen presents a state history beginning in the 1860’s and running through present day.
Bo Petersen is an award-winning reporter for the Post Courier and has additionally published poetry, short stories, and essays.
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